Gawker reports that English rabbi Baruch Chalomish is on trial for allegedly selling drugs, having been charged with running a "commercial cocaine-supply operation" alongside his partner, Nasir Abbas. The original story in the London Times says the Rabbi "set up in business as a drug dealer and lavished his supplies of cocaine on young prostitutes at parties", behavior that isn't exactly a Kiddush HaShem.

Judging from the photo of him below, you'd never guess he was such a team player. Sure, Chalomish and Abbas were selling coke and soliciting hookers, but what really matters is that they were doing it together. Who says there's no hope for Jewish/Arab relations?!

What's goin' on in the world today?
People fightin', feudin', lootin', it's okay.
Let it go, let it flow, let the good times roll. -- Eminem

The morning roundup of the happenings and lack thereof in all corners of the Universe:

• More Americans are getting days off from work than at any point in the past 14 years. Welcome to the terror dome, Mr. President-Elect.
• Mayor Bloomberg has proposed a 6-cent tax on plastic bags at New York City supermarkets.
• They have elections in Scotland, too.
• Jimmy Carl Black, the longtime drummer of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, died in Germany.
• Comedian Katt Williams was picked up on gun charges in New York on Thursday.
• Six Algerian inmates at Guantanamo Bay will contest their incarceration in a Federal Court in Washington later this month, in the first such case since the prison was opened following 9/11.
• New York Governor Eliot Spitzer won't face criminal charges in his hooker debacle.
• Hall and Oates are in the news!
• November 26th has been declared "Barack Obama Day" in Kenya. I'm pretty sure this happened when G.W. Bush was elected also, right?
• 70 Saudi Arabian activists are staging a hunger strike to protest their government's incarceration of 'political prisoners.' This should go over well in a country that still stones people to death in public executions. 
• England is the top cocaine consumer in Europe.
• At least 11 people are dead in a US airstrike in Iraq Afghanistan Syria Pakistan.

• It is the author's opinion that Condolezza Rice is being unreasonably pessimistic in saying that the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict will not be resolved in the next seven weeks.
• California, Arizona and Florida all voted to ban gay marriage. Somewhere in Idaho, Larry Craig just pumped his fist convincingly.
• Michael Chrichton died.
• Everyone in Kenya is naming their newborns "Barack" or "Michelle."
• The War on Drugs has suffered a rare setback, as a $6 billion operation launched in 1999 has failed in its objective to halve cocaine traffic from Columbia into America.
• The Chinese government has asked President-Elect Obama to oppose Taiwanese independence when it takes office in January.
• Croatia will likely join the European Union in 2011.
• Retail sales are down across the board, with Wal-Mart being the lone exception, indicating that America's redneck population has yet to die out in the current recession.